Publications


2025 & In press

  • Ford, B. Q. (2025). The individual, relational, and societal costs of striving to feel good. Nature Reviews Psychology. PDF.

  • Leonhardt, N. D., Stellar, J. E., Ford, B. Q., Van Cappellen, P., & Impett, E. A. (2025). “It’s Hard to Shake God’s Hand”: Paying Gratitude to God Back versus Forward. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Link.

  • Wei, A., Ford, B. Q., Willroth, E. C. (in press). Retrospective perceptions of life satisfaction change: Evaluation strategies and correspondence with measured change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. PDF.

  • Willroth, E.C., Young, G., Ford, B.Q., Troy, A., Swierzewicz, D., & Mauss, I.B. (2025). A preregistered replication and extension of “The Wisdom to know the difference: Strategy-situation fit in emotion regulation in daily life is associated with well-being.” Psychological Science, 36(5), 367-383. PDF.

  • Zhao, Y., Sisson, N. M., Zerwas, F., & Ford, B. Q. (2025). The interpersonal risks of valuing happiness: Links to interpersonal emotion regulation and close others’ mental health. Emotion, 25, 488-506. PDF.

2024

  • Kyle, K., Ford, B. Q., & Willroth, E. (2024). Personality Trait Change Across A Major Global Stressor. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51, 1716 – 1730. PDF.

  • Zerwas, F. K., Ford, B. Q., John, O. P., & Mauss, I. B. (2024). Unpacking the pursuit of happiness: Being concerned about happiness but not aspiring to happiness is linked with negative meta-emotions and worse well-being. Emotion, 24(8), 1789–1802. PDF.

2023

  • Ford, B. Q.*, Feinberg, M.*, Lassetter, B.†, Thai, S.†, & Gatchpazian, A. (2023). The Political is Personal: The Costs of Daily Politics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 1–28. *†Authors contributed equally. PDF.

  • Gross, J. J. & Ford, B. Q. (Eds). (2023). Handbook of Emotion Regulation (3rd edition). New York, NY: Guilford. Link.

  • Ladis, I., Toner, E. R., Daros, A. R., Daniel, K., Boukhechba, M., Chow, P. I., Barnes, L. E., Teachman, B. A., & Ford, B. Q. (2023). Assessing emotion polyregulation in daily life: Who uses it, when is it used, and how effective is it? Affective Science, 4, 248–259. PDF.

  • Lwi, S., Ford, B. Q., & Levenson, R. (2023). Cultural differences in caring for people with dementia: A pilot study of Chinese American caregivers, concern about losing face, and implications for caregiver loneliness. Clinical Gerontologist, 46, 207-222. PDF.

  • Okafor, G. N., Ford, B. Q., Antonoplis, S., Reina, A., Lutfeali, S., & Shallcross, A. J. (2023). Measuring Mindfulness in Black Americans: A Psychometric Validation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. Mindfulness, 14, 565–581. PDF.

  • Smith, A.M., Young, G. & Ford, B.Q. (2023). The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable. Motivation and Emotion, 47, 323–332. PDF.

  • Uusberg, A., Ford, B. Q., Uusberg, H., & Gross, J. J. (2023). Reappraising reappraisal: An expanded view. Cognition and Emotion, 37, 357-370. PDF.

  • Werner, K. M. & Ford, B. Q. (2023). Self-control: An integrative framework. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17, e12738. PDF.

  • Willroth, E., Smith, A., Graham, E. K., Mroczek, D. K., Shallcross, A. J., & Ford, B. Q. (2023). Emotional responses to a global stressor: Average patterns and individual differences. European Journal of Personality, 37, 418-434. PDF.

2022

  • Ford, B. Q., Green, D. J., & Gross, J. J. (2022). White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective. American Psychologist, 77, 510-524. PDF.

  • Sisson, N. M., Willroth, E., Le, B. M., & Ford, B. Q. (2022). The benefits of living with close others: A longitudinal examination of mental health before and during a global stressor. Clinical Psychological Science, 10, 1083-1097. PDF.

  • Werner, K. M., Inzlicht, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2022). Whither inhibition? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 333-339. PDF.

  • Willroth, E. C., Gatchpazian, A., Lassetter, B., Thai, S., Feinberg, M. & Ford, B. Q. (2022). The insulating function of sleep for well-being: Daily sleep attenuates the link between momentary affect and global well-being. Affective Science, 3, 318-329. PDF.

2021

  • Gruber, J., Mendle, J., Lindquist, K., Schmader, T., Clark, L. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Akinola, M., Atlas, L., M. Barch, D. M., Barrett, L. F., Borelli, J., Brannon, T., Bunge, S., Campos, B., Cantlon, J., Carter, R., Carter-Sowell, A., Chen, S., Craske, M., Crum, A., Cuddy, A. J., Davachi, L., Duckworth, A., Dutra, S. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Ferguson, M., Ford, B. Q., Fredrickson, B., Goodman, S., Gopnik, A., Greenaway, V. P., Harkness, K., Hebl, M., Heller, W., Hooley, J., Jampol, L., Johnson, S., Joormann, J., Kinzler, K., Kober, H., Kring, A., Paluck, B. L., Lombrozo, T., Lourenco, S. F., McRae, K., Monin, J., Moskowitz, J. T., Natsuaki, M., Oettingen, G., Pfeifer, J., Prause, N., Saxbe, D., Smith, P. K. , Spellman, B., Sturm, V., Teachman, B., Thompson, R., Weinstock, L., & Williams, L. A. (2021). The future of women in psychological science. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 16, 483-516. PDF.

  • Niculescu, I., Quirt, H., Arora, T., Borsook, T., Green, R., Ford, B. Q. & Iaboni, A. (2021). Ecological momentary assessment of depression in people with advanced dementia: A pilot study. JMIR: Aging, 4, e29021. PDF.

  • Slovak, P., Ford, B. Q., Widen, S., Roquet, C. D., Theofanopoulou, N., Gross, J. J., Hankin, B., & Klasnja, P. (2021). An In-situ, Child-led Intervention To Promote Emotion Regulation Competence in Middle Childhood: Protocol For an Exploratory Randomised Control Trial. JMIR: Research Protocols. Link.

  • Smith, A., Willroth, E., Gatchpazian, A., Shallcross, A. J., Feinberg, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2021). Coping with health threats: The costs and benefits of managing emotions. Psychological Science, 32, 1011-1023. PDF.

  • Willroth, E., Smith, A., Shallcross, A. J., Graham, E. K., Mroczek, D. K., & Ford, B. Q. (2021). The health behavior model of personality in the context of a public health crisis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83, 363-367. PDF.

  • Zerwas, F. & Ford, B. Q. (2021). The paradox of pursuing happiness. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 106-112. PDF.

2020

  • Brown, C. L., Van Doren, N., Ford, B. Q., Mauss, I. B., Sze, J. W. & Levenson, R. W. (2020). Coherence between subjective experience and physiology in emotion: Individual differences and implications for well-being. Emotion, 20, 818-829. PDF.

  • Feinberg, M., Ford, B. Q., & Flynn, F. (2020). Rethinking reappraisal: The double-edged sword of regulating negative emotions in the workplace. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 1-19. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q. & Feinberg, M. (2020). Coping with politics: The benefits and costs of emotion regulation. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 123-128. PDF.

2019

  • Ford, B. Q. (2019). Pursuing positive emotion: When and why could wanting to feel happy be linked to psychopathology? In J. Gruber (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology. (pp. 13-26). Oxford University Press. Link.

  • Ford, B. Q., Feinberg, M., Lam, P., Mauss, I. B. John, O. (2019). Using reappraisal to regulate negative emotion after the 2016 U.S. presidential election: Does emotion regulation trump political action? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 998-1015. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q. & Gross, J. J. (2019). Why beliefs about emotion matter: An emotion regulation perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 74-81. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q., Gross, J. J., & Gruber, J. (2019). Broadening our field of view: The role of emotion polyregulation. Emotion Review, 11 197-208. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q.* & Troy, A. S.* (2019). Reappraisal reconsidered: A closer look at the costs of an acclaimed emotion regulation strategy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 195-203. *Authors contributed equally. PDF.

  • Gentzler, A., Palmer, C., Ford, B. Q., Moran, K., & Mauss, I. B. (2019). Excessively valuing happiness in youth: Associations with depressive symptoms and well-being. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 62, 220-230. PDF.

2018

  • Ford, B. Q. & Gross, J. J. (2018). Emotion regulation: Why beliefs matter. Canadian Psychology, 59, 1-15. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q.,* Lam, P.,* John, O., & Mauss, I. B. (2018). The psychological health benefits of accepting negative emotions and thoughts: Laboratory, diary, and longitudinal evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 1075-1092. *Authors contributed equally. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q., Lwi, S., Hankin, B., Gentzler, A. L., & Mauss, I. B. (2018). The cost of believing emotions are uncontrollable: Youths' beliefs about emotion predict emotion regulation and depressive symptoms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 47, 1170-1190. PDF.

2017

  • Ford, B. Q., Karnilowicz, H. R., & Mauss, I. B. (2017). Understanding reappraisal as a multi-component process: The psychological health benefits of attempting to use reappraisal depend on reappraisal success. Emotion, 17, 905-911. PDF.

  • Lwi, S.*, Ford, B. Q.*, Casey, J., Miller, B., & Levenson, R. (2017). Poor caregiver mental health predicts mortality of patients with neurodegenerative disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 7319-7324. *Shared first-authorship. PDF.

  • Troy, A. S., Ford, B. Q., McRae, K., Zarolia, P., & Mauss, I. B. (2017) Change the things you can: Effective emotion regulation is most beneficial in low socioeconomic contexts. Emotion, 17, 141-154. PDF.

2016

  • Levenson, R., Lwi, S., Brown, C.*, Ford, B. Q.*, Otero, M.*, & Verstaen, A.* (2016). Emotion. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary, and G. G. Berntson (Eds.) Handbook of Psychophysiology (4th Ed). pp. 444-464. Cambridge University Press. *Authors contributed equally. PDF.

  • Waugh, C. E., Zarolia, P., Mauss, I. B., Lumian, D., Ford, B. Q., Davis, T., Ciesielski, B. G., Sams, K. V., & McRae, K. (2016). Emotion regulation changes the duration of the BOLD response to emotional stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11. 1550-1559. PDF.

  • Werner, G. G., Ford, B. Q., Mauss, I. B., Schabus, M., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F. (2016). Cardiac vagal control and depressive symptoms: The moderating role of sleep quality. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15, 451-465. PDF.

2015

  • Ford, B. Q., Dmitrieva, J. O., Heller, D., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Grossmann, I., Tamir, M., Uchida, Y., Koopmann-Holm, B., Uhrig, M., Floerke, V., Bokhan, T., & Mauss, I. B. (2015). Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 1053-1062. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q. & Mauss, I. B. (2015). Culture and emotion regulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 3, 1-5. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q., Mauss, I. B., & Gruber, J. (2015). Valuing happiness is associated with bipolar disorder. Emotion, 15, 211-222. PDF.

  • Kim, M., Ford, B. Q., Mauss, I. B., & Tamir, M. (2015). Knowing when to seek anger: Psychological health and context- sensitive emotional preferences. Cognition and Emotion, 29, 1126-1136. PDF.

  • Shallcross, A. J., Gross, J. J., Visvanathan, P. D., Kumar, N., Pastva, A., Ford, B. Q., Dimidjian, S., Shirk, S. R., Holm-Denoma, J., Goode, K., Cox, E., Chaplin, W., & Mauss, I. B. (2015). Relapse prevention in major depressive disorder: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy versus an active control condition. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83, 964-975. PDF.

  • Werner, G. G., Ford, B. Q., Schabus, M., Mauss, I. B., Blechert, J., & Wilhelm, F. (2015). High cardiac vagal control during wakefulness predicts better subjective and objective sleep quality. Biological Psychology, 106, 79-85. PDF.

2014

  • Davis, T. S., Mauss, I. B., Lumian, D., Troy, A. S., Shallcross, A. J., Zarolia, P., Ford, B. Q., & McRae, K. (2014). Emotional reactivity and emotion regulation among adults with a history of self-harm: Laboratory self-report and functional MRI evidence. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 499-509. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q. & Mauss, I. B. (2014). The paradoxical effects of pursuing positive emotion: When and why wanting to feel happy backfires. In J. Gruber and J. Moskowitz (Eds.) Positive Emotion: Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides (pp. 363-381). Oxford University Press. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q. & Mauss, I. B. (2014). Emotion Experience and Well-Being.  In E. Diener & R. Biswas-Diener (Eds.), Noba textbook series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: Diener Education Fund Publishers. LINK.

  • Ford, B. Q., Mauss, I. B., Troy, A. S., Smolen, A., & Hankin, B. (2014). Emotion regulation protects children from risk associated with 5-HTT gene and stress. Emotion, 14, 930-939. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q. & Tamir, M. (2014). Preferring familiar emotions: As you want (and like) it? Cognition and Emotion, 28, 311-324. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q., Shallcross, A. J., Mauss, I. B., Floerke, V. A., & Gruber, J. (2014). Desperately seeking happiness: Valuing happiness is associated with symptoms and diagnosis of depression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 33, 890-905. PDF.

2013

  • Hopp, H., Shallcross, A. J., Ford, B. Q., Troy, A. S., Floerke, V., Wilhelm, F., & Mauss, I. B. (2013). High vagal tone protects against future depressive symptoms under conditions of social support. Biological Psychology, 93, 143-149. PDF.

  • Kogan, A., Gruber, J., Shallcross, A., Ford, B. Q., & Mauss, I. B. (2013). Too much of a good thing? Cardiac vagal tone’s non-linear relationship with well-being. Emotion, 13, 599-604. PDF.

  • Shallcross, A., Ford, B. Q., Floerke, V. A., & Mauss, I. B. (2013). Getting better with age: The relationship between age, acceptance and negative affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 734-749. PDF.

  • Tamir, M., Ford, B. Q., & Gilliam, M. (2013). Evidence for utilitarian motives in emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 27, 483-491. PDF.

  • Tamir, M., Ford, B. Q., & Ryan, E. (2013). Nonconscious goals can shape what people want to feel. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 292-297. PDF.

  • Weisbuch, M., Lamer, S., & Ford, B. Q. (2013). Memory for eye gaze: Accuracy, bias, and the role of facial emotion. Social Cognition, 31, 686-695. PDF.

2012 and earlier

  • Ford, B. Q. & Tamir, M. (2012). When getting angry is smart: Emotional preferences and emotional intelligence. Emotion, 12, 685-689. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q., Tamir, M., Gagnon, S. A., Taylor, H. A., & Brunyé, T. T. (2012). The angry spotlight: Trait anger and selective attention to rewards. European Journal of Personality, 26, 90-98. PDF.

  • Tamir, M. & Ford, B. Q. (2012a). When feeling bad is expected to be good: Emotion regulation and outcome expectancies in social conflicts. Emotion, 12, 807-816. PDF.

  • Tamir, M. & Ford, B. Q.  (2012b). Should people pursue feelings that feel good or feelings that do good? Emotional preferences and well-being. Emotion, 12, 1061-1070. PDF.

  • Ford, B. Q., Tamir, M., Brunyé, T. T., Shirer, W. R., Mahoney, C. R., & Taylor, H. A. (2010). Keeping your eyes on the prize: Anger and visual attention to threats and rewards. Psychological Science, 21, 1098-1105. PDF.

  • Tamir, M. & Ford, B. Q. (2009). Choosing to be afraid: Preferences for fear as a function of goal pursuit. Emotion, 9, 488-497. PDF.